http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...tion-rate.html
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A cross-party alliance of MPs will launch a fresh bid to tighten the rules on terminations.
Nadine Dorries, a Conservative MP, and Frank Field, a former Labour minister, will table amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill now passing through the Commons.
Supporters of the amendments say that passing them would lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of abortions that take place in the UK.
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The first amendment would create a new precondition for any women having an abortion to receive advice and counselling from an organisation that does not itself carry out terminations.
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Fair enough! I've no objections to that.
However I do over this.
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The second amendment that will be tabled next week would strip the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of its role setting clinical guidelines on abortions.
Instead, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should advise doctors on when to allow an abortion, the MPs believe.
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I don't believe the RCOG have done a particularly bad job thus far and I can't help feeling that their specialist knowledge is of far more relevance than that of the NIHCE.
Personally I think that the legislation for abortion is fine just as it is as I see no need to be changing anything.
What do you think?